Lemieux, Birchfield, Ellis and Cheng win at Stock Wars

0 Oct. 28, 2015, 11:48 a.m.

By Aaron Waldron
LiveRC.com

Race report from XRAY:
www.teamxray.com

2015 MOTIV Stock Wars was hosted by Middle River Hobbies in Middle River Maryland, Middle River Hobbies is a small to med size High grip carpet track. Dates were Oct. 23rd-25th 2015. Race format was pro and open stock classes. All day practice on Friday, with three qualifiers on Saturday, one qualifier on Sunday followed by single finals. Top Stock and mod drivers from around the USA came to take part in the first Stock Wars. Classes were 17.5 TC Pro, 17.5 TC Open, 17.5 1/12 Pro, 17.5 1/12 Open, USGT and F1. Celebrity announcer Scotty Ernst made the trip to do the which added to the already big anticipation and excitement of the event.

Team XRAY was well represented. Paul Lemieux, Eric “EA” Anderson, Drew Ellis, Robbie Dodge, Craig Xavier, Sam Isaac, and Cory Parsons all made the trip. The Race was a laid back atmosphere. The team was able to spend time with customers and each other. Since we were all running the same class, information and testing was more communicative than ever before. It was not long before the whole XRAY team had their cars precisely tuned for the conditions.

In the Pro TC Division Paul Lemieux set the pace in Q1 and so on. Paul had serious challenges in qualifying by Kyle Klingforth but was able to TQ by a moderate amount, Robby Dodge would also throw in his hat for TQ at times but would round out the top three in qualifying. The Pro TC Final was not to be the exciting race everyone had hoped, Wrecks at the beginning allowed TQ Paul Lemieux to get a early lead and never look back, The fight for second would be the interesting one with many drivers having a good chance for it. In the end EA Eric Anderson would hold off the charging Kyle Klingforth to finish second. As a whole team XRAY was very happy with the overall performance of the team having a whopping 7 of 10 cars in the final.  

In The USGT Division Drew Ellis and Robby Dodge battled it out all threw qualifying, Drew would take the TQ and the win in that division. Also in the F1 Division Drew would have success with his X1 by taking the TQ and win.